Isaiah 13:12 (WEB)
I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
Fathers and councils · 1
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.20Conference I
“…command bids us, become good money-changers, whose highest skill and whose training is to test what is perfectly pure gold and what is commonly termed tested, or what is not sufficiently purified in the fire; and also with unerring skill not to be taken in by a common brass denarius, if by being coloured with bright…” — editor's note: Obrizum. The word occurs in the Vulgate five times for “pure gold.” See 2 Chr. iii. 5; Job xxviii. 15; xxxi. 24; Isa. xiii. 12; Dan. x. 5; and is akin to the…
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Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.